Enter your city, base rent, deposit and service charges. You instantly see whether your deposit sits within the legal cap of 2 months of base rent, and how your amounts compare with live supply from 1000+ agency sites: your percentile, the median and the spread per city.
For contracts signed on or after 1 July 2023 the deposit is capped at 2 months of base rent, under the Good Landlordship Act. Older contracts carry a 3 month cap.
After the tenancy ends the deposit comes back within 14 days. If the landlord deducts costs, the remainder follows within 30 days, with a specification. Only damage, unpaid rent, unpaid service charges and unpaid energy performance fees may be deducted.
Service charges come on top of the base rent: think caretaker, cleaning of shared spaces or the use of furniture. Your landlord must send a yearly statement, by 1 July at the latest.
If the charges look too high or the statement seems off, you can go to your municipality reporting point or the Huurcommissie (rent tribunal). There is no legal monthly cap, which is why this tool benchmarks your amount against live supply.
WoonBusters collects rental listings from 1000+ agency sites daily. The benchmark compares your deposit and service charges with active listings that state these amounts, per city and where possible per property type. The sample size (n) is always shown; cities with fewer than 20 observations fall back to the national distribution. You compare with real asking amounts of this moment, not an estimate.
For rental contracts signed on or after 1 July 2023 the deposit is capped at 2 months of base rent, under the Good Landlordship Act (Wet goed verhuurderschap). For contracts from before 1 July 2023 the maximum is 3 months. Source: Rijksoverheid.
Within 14 days after the tenancy ends. If the landlord deducts costs, the remaining amount follows within 30 days, with a written specification. Deductions are only allowed for damage to the home, unpaid rent, unpaid service charges and unpaid energy performance fees.
Service charges are legally regulated: the settlement must reflect actual costs and arrive yearly (by 1 July), the Huurcommissie can review it, and its policy book lists which items a landlord may charge. What does not exist is a fixed national amount in euros. This tool therefore compares your amount with the service charges in live supply from 1000+ agency sites and shows your percentile, the median and the spread, always with the sample size. If yours looks high, request the itemised specification and take it to the Huurcommissie if needed.
Yes. You receive a yearly statement of the service charges, by 1 July at the latest. If the charges look too high or the statement seems off, you can go to your municipality reporting point or the Huurcommissie (rent tribunal).
From our own data: WoonBusters collects rental listings from 1000+ agency sites daily. The benchmark only counts active listings that state a deposit or service charges. Cities with fewer than 20 observations are not shown separately; you then compare with the national distribution.
All legal claims on this page: retrieved 22 and 23 August 2026.
This is one slice of the data. The full study (prices, affordability, WWS compliance, speed and geography over March–May 2026) is free and quotable with attribution.